Brienne Colston (they/she) is a queer and genderqueer Black feminist, musician, guest lecturer, and community healer hailing from the South Bronx. In addition to serving as USDAC Co-Director, Brienne is the founder and executive director of Brown Girl Recovery, a Black and queer-led healing justice practice space. Brienne serves as a social justice consultant for an array of organizations, including the NYC Department of Mental Health & Hygiene, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, The Indianapolis Public School District, Columbia University School of Social Work, and others.

Brienne attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin as a Posse Foundation scholar, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Gender Studies and History. A proud alum of the Young People For Social Justice Fellowship, Brienne received the 2019 YP4 Innovation Award for her activist work with Brown Girl Recovery, and the George B. Walter ‘36 Service to Society Award.

Carol Zou (they/them) is a U.S. based community-engaged artist whose work engages themes of spatial justice, public pedagogy, and intercultural connection in multiracial neighborhoods. They engage durational, process-based collaborations with community contributors using mediums of craft, media arts, and public installation. As a counterpoint to their collaborative work, their writing and conceptual works interrogate questions of conflict and antagonism constitutive of the public sphere. Their style of multi-sector collaboration gestures to an interdisciplinary, liberatory future in which we are all hopefully a little more undisciplined.

Carol received their BFA from Cornell University with minors in Urban Planning and Gender Studies, and their MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design. They have participated in fellowships and residencies from Enterprise Community Partners, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Santa Fe Art Institute, Intercultural Leadership Institute, National Art Strategies, Women's Center for Creative Work, Common Field, University of Chicago Place Lab-Rebuild Foundation, and University of Houston College of the Arts-Project Row Houses.

Kelly Baker (she/her) is an artist, meme-maker, facilitator, and nonprofit consultant. She specializes in supporting movement organizations to be more effective, sustainable, and values-aligned. Her clients include a wide variety of movement organizations organizing for change at the local and national level.  Kelly currently develops and facilitates virtual workshops and classes for movement fundraisers through her work with Resource Organizing Project.

Before launching her consulting practice, she was the Co-Director of the New Economy Coalition, a U.S.-based national network supporting a just transition to a regenerative economy by building the scale and power of the solidarity economy movement. She is the Board President of the Somerville Community Land Trust.

Jordan Seaberry is a painter, organizer, legislative advocate and educator. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art, he built a career as a grassroots organizer, helping to fight for and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, including The Community-Police Relationship Act, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill, and helping lay the groundwork for the “Ban the Box” movement in Rhode Island.

Jordan has worked as an educator with the Center for Dynamic Learning, as the Prisoners Rights Organizer with Direct Action for Rights and Equality and most recently as the Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at the Nonviolence Institute. He serves as a Board Member at New Urban Arts in Providence, and Protect Families First, working on community-oriented drug policy reform. He has received fellowships from the Art Matters Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, among others. He currently serves as the Community Leader Fellow at Roger Williams University School of Law and maintains a painting studio in Providence.